TODO.md

TODO – Future improvements and issues

Issues to address

User Interactions

• Catoms2D Rotations from the menu are sometimes mistakenly authorized, and blocks sometimes perform 2 rotations at a time.

Graphical Window

• Catoms2D graphical grid size seems too narrow, which cuts modules at coordinate x = (gridSize - 1) in two. See below:

Improvements

Meld Interpreter

• Enable Meld action for generic rotation events (Rotation 2D/3D)

Scheduler

• Refactor Scheduler functions (e.g. startPaused), depends on Debugger implementation
• Replace current event container multimap<date, event> to a more efficient one, e.g., a priority queue.

Configuration Files

• Camera and Spotlight elements could be automatically deduced from the rest of the data in the configuration file. See Configuration::exportToVisibleSim method in https://github.com/nazandre/VisibleSimConfigGenerator/blob/master/build/configuration.cpp.

Code Organization

• Organize simulator core source code files in subfolders

CMake BuildSystem

• Build CMake with targets: Makefile and Code::Blocks IDE project

New Features

Multi Robots

• Native support for non-modular multi-robot systems with wireless communication capability
• Support for obstacles as a standard feature in VisibleSim

Debuggers

• Meld Interpreter Debugger
• C++ Debugger

Scenarios

• Scenario definition and parsing
• Scenario events scheduling and execution